Many people teach that Jesus is God, fact is he either is or isn't. So my question is, if Jesus is God then did he lie in these verses?:
Mr 10:40
But to
sit on my right
hand and on my left
hand is not mine to
give;
but it shall be given to them for
whom it is
prepared
Mr 13:32
But of that day and that
hour knoweth no
man, no,
not the
angels which are
in heaven, neither the
Son, but the
Father.
I do not believe Jesus lied, and likely you do not either, so how does one who believes Jesus is God, explain this?
BACKGROUND -
Explanation - is likened to revealing Understanding.
The mystery of Understanding "spiritual" things, IS; the Understanding of anything "spiritual", comes from a "spiritual thing".
God IS Spirit, Man IS NOT A Spirit...
A sort of a "communication" conundrum?
Observe the teaching "method"...
Analogies... Revealing that which IS Spiritual...in a manner TO: what IS familiar to a Mankind....
Begin with..."father" being mentioned hundreds of times, IN: Gen; Ex; Lev; Num.
It expressly Applies to An Earthly Man, Head of his Household, Authority, Rulemaker, Oversseer, Responsible for revealing Knowledge and Care of his Household....
THEN QUESTION...WHY is God in Heaven, called: The Father?
That ANSWER...is revealed IN Deut.
Deut. 32:
[
6] Do ye thus requite
the LORD, O foolish people and unwise?
is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not
made thee, and
established thee?
THAT one verse, reveals a Parallel, between the LORD, Whose "HOUSE". "THRONE", "KINGDOM"....IS Heaven, Whose Authority, Oversseeing, Rulmaking, Knowledge, Care....IS SUPREME over HIS HOUSE...and ALL "earthly men", and heads of "their" household.
THAT...is the Revelation, the Revealing,
the Analogy, Parallel ...OF
Example for all of mankind, especially heads of their household, to Hear, Listen, Learn, Mimic....FOR "success" according TO the LORD. The FATHER of ALL mankind.... "who made man and established man".
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Many people teach that Jesus is God, fact is he either is or isn't. So my question is, if Jesus is God then did he lie in these verses?
No, Jesus did not lie.
Jesus FULFILLED a Promise of God, IN the manner/fashion,WAY...according to Gods WISDOM and METHOD.
Gods Promise?
* To SEND A Messiah....FROM Gods "HOUSE, His Kingdom IN HEAVEN ....
* To Earth, (mankinds Habitat, Estate, NOT Gods Kingdom, IS Gods footstool.)
* TO to walk among men ON Earth, to be seen by men ON Earth, to be heard by men,
TO Offer Salvation (for the souls of men) TO men ON Earth.
* The Conundrum?
Earthly mens EYES, CAN NOT....
SEE God, SEE Heavenly things....and remain ALIVE.
* The FACTS...Almighty God...is expressly, Supreme Power.
* The FACTS...Almighty God...
CAN purpose IN HIMSELF to "APPEAR" to the eyes of men, "SPEAK" to the ears of men....BY His Power....IN ANY FASHION that IS Good and Maintains His Holiness....While revealing Spiritual Mysteries.
God IN His Heavenly Kingdom, sent forth OUT of His mouth, His Word, In the LIKENESS and fashion AS An Earthly man....
* AN...Express Earthly mans look; as a Jew.
* TO...an Express people; Jews
* TO...an Express place; Judah, Israel
* WITH...an Express Name; Jesus
* WITH...Express titles; (at the time of his arrival...Son of Man, Son of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, son of Joseph, son of Mary.
* WITH..Express forknowledge of what he "would also" be called; Messiah, Teacher, Lord, Truth, Life, Way,
Son of God, Word of God, Holy, Savior, Salvation, Power of God, Wisdom of God, Quickening Spirit, Christ, ....
* ALSO, foretold in Isaiah..."would be" called: God, Mighty, Head of Government, Everlasting Father etc.
Did Jesus Lie? No.
God Himself revealed...the foreknowledge, of His MANNER, of HOW He would Reveal Himself TO: mankind IN A FASHION mankind COULD SEE and HEAR....WITHOUT compromising, tainting...Gods HOLINESS.
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MYSTERY REVEALED -
"COVER"...
Nothing New from the Beginning of Mankind.
God IS HOLY...Mankind was created and made;...VERY GOOD...(not holy).
God has ALWAYS....been "shrouded" with "A COVER", A "shield", that PROTECTS His HOLINESS, FROM "ALL THINGS CORRUPT".
Examples;
* A Barrier:
firmament Between Heaven and Earth.
* A Curtain;
In the Temple Between People and the holy of holies.
* A Body;
Prepared By God, FOR His Word to Walk among men.
THE MYSTERY...IS:
"REMEMBER"...God reveals
knowledge to mankind, OF Spiritual things...IN A FASHION, An Analogy, that a man IS familiar with...
Spiritual Understanding IS: TRUSTING THE KNOWLEDGE....OF WHAT IS
"UNDER, BEHIND.... THE COVER"....WITHOUT EVER "SEEING"...under, behind the Cover. [/B]
** An individual who has Heard, Learned the Knowledge Revealed....and TRUSTS to Believe the KNOWLEDGE REVEALED....
* Speaks, Testifies, Relays...."THEIR BELIEF, THEIR CONFIDANCE, THEIR ASSURANCE...."
OF "WHAT" IS "under, behind"
the COVER, Which man has been ALLOWED TO see ....IS IN FACT...the Lord God Almighty Himself.
* IS Jesus the Word of God, the Son of God, the Wisdom of God, the Power of God, the Christ, the Quickening Spirit of God, the Truth of God, IS God....etc. etc. etc. ??
* FOR any man, WHO TRUSTS to BELIEVE IN God, and WHO TRUSTS to believe God revealed that Knowledge to Mankind...AND Speaks the Same openly...IS SPEAKING "HIS TRUTH", that he has Accepted, IS his TRUTH.
* CAN A MAN....PROVE "his TRUTH" should be or must be....another mans "TRUTH"? No.
*
Another Conundrum? DID Jesus himself face the same conundrum? Yes.
AND WHAT was Jesus' "solution" ?
Simple solution...
1) Speak what you Believe.
2) Certainly Speak Scriptures that formed your Belief.
3) Do not attempt to PROVE what you Believe, to satisify a Doubter.
4) Do Reveal "your works" to others, that "they" may SEE the "results" of "your works"...
5) Give God "credit" for " your works".
John 10:
[
38] But if I do, though ye believe not me,
believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
God decided, elected, chose....TO "purpose" IN Himself...and Call Himself, by names, by titles, by descriptions....According to His own desire.
(And BTW...men do the SAME thing. Men choose names, titles, descriptions they themselve Choose to be "called by" such things.)
Eph 1:
[
9] Having
made known unto us the mystery of his will , according to his good pleasure which he hath
purposed in himself:
Heb 1:
[
5] For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again,
I will be to him a Father,
and he shall be to me a Son ?
Heb 10:
[
5] Wherefore
when he cometh
into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but
a body hast thou prepared me:
Heb 10:
[
10] By the which will we are sanctified through
the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
IS JESUS GOD?
My view, my belief, my truth IS; YES.
DID I Confess my view, my belief, my truth TO the Lord God Himself? YES.
AM I sanctified (set apart), exclusively "unto" the Lord God? My view, my belief, my truth IS: Yes.
Do I "benefit", with Blessing, Good fortune, Contentment, Comfort, Inner Peace.... BECAUSE of the Lord Gods WORKS IN ME? My view, my belief, my truth IS: Yes.
Does what I Observe of "goings on" IN the World...make me ANGRY? Yes.
CAN I "FIX" that? No.
IS the "goings on" IN the World...Observed BY God and make God ANGRY? Yes.
Can God, Shall God "FIX" that? Yes.
"Patience and Waiting"...All in DUE TIME, according to God.
Glory to God,
Taken